The renovated 180,000-sq-ft Cesar Chavez Memorial Building, located at the edge of the Golden Triangle neighborhood near downtown Denver, has been awarded LEED-Gold certification as a result of the $42.7-million modernization project completed last year. The project team was initially targeting LEED Silver.
The building, originally constructed in 1984, houses more than 400 federal employees. It was extensively retrofitted with energy-efficient features designed to ensure the sustainable operation of the federal building far into the future. The most visible of these upgrades is the completely renovated façade. The design-build team used solar studies and simulations to minimize the heat gain in the building due to sunlight.
